STEAMER ON REEF.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 239, 9 October 1928, Page 8

STEAMER ON REEF.

OK QUEENSLAND COAST. HOPE OF REFLOATING. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Monday. Radio signals intercepted by the Post and Telegraph Department indicate that the steamer Kinross is ashore on Cato Island reef. She is not making water, however, and it is hoped to get her off. The weather is fine. The Kinross is a tramp steamer off 5234 tons and was built at Middlesboro' in 1918. She is owned by the Sutherland Steamship Company, Newcastle-on-Tyne. Her former names were War Spartan and Taxandrier. The vessel was at Auckland at the end of last July, when she unloaded case oil from Port Arthur, Texaß. From Auckland she went to Wellington, New Plymouth, Sydney, Newcastle, Rockhampton, and Townsville, where she unloaded the remainder of her case oil cargo. Afterwards the vessel proceeded to Nauru Island to load phosphates for Australia. When the Kinross was at Auckland Captain H. Pattison was in command, and the following were the officers:— Chief, Mr. W. Gilchrist; second, Mr. J. R. Copping; chief engineer, Mr. T. Torgerson; second, Mr. G- L. Granger; third, Mr. H. C. Barron; fourth, Mr. J, Tweedy; wireless operator, Mr. G. Woods; chief steward, Mr. F. Kelly. Cato Island, where the Kinross is ashore, is one of the numerous islands in the Coral Sea. It is situated about 140 miles from Sandy Cape, and nearly 350 miles from Brisbane.